Note 26 — HISTORICAL RECORD
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The following curious statement is inserted in Lieut.-Colonel Stearne's journal:—"During the siege of Aire, provisions were very scarce; but one thing gave the soldiers relief, and it is indeed almost incredible—and it was the hoards of corn which the mice had laid up in store-houses in the earth, which our men found, and came home daily loaded with corn, which they got out of these hoards." Captain Parker alludes to the same circumstance, and adds,—"These hoards were from four to six feet under ground, and in many of them our men found some pecks of corn."